California GOP State Senator Sued For Alleged Sexual Harassment By Staffer Weeks After Switching Parties

Politico reports:

State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil’s former chief of staff has sued her for alleged sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, claiming in a lengthy complaint that the Central Valley Republican pressured him into performing sex acts and then fired him when he resisted. The suit comes a month after Alvarado-Gil switched parties. She declared on Fox News in August, “The Democratic Party of today, in California, I do not recognize it.”

Chad Condit alleges the senator then started “grooming” him, sharing intimate details about her marriage, sex life and drug use and asking if he’d ever cheat on his wife.The suit alleges Alvarado-Gil  the escalated her treatment toward her staffer by making overt sexual passes at him, and eventually pressuring him into performing oral sex on her. During the last occasion where he allegedly performed oral sex in the tight confines of a car, Condit said he suffered a back injury.

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Of note, Chad Condit is the son of former Democratic Rep. Gary Condit, who was eventually cleared in the 2001 death of Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy, with whom he’d been having an affair. Publicity surrounding the case cost the elder Condit reelection to a sixth term in 2002. Chad Condit made a failed bid for the US House in 2012 and a failed bid for the California Assembly 2022.